Alan Kleymeyer

I have never taken a job at a place that included tests during the interview process.  The last time I interviewed someone I did it through Skype and they shared their desktop,  brought up their development environment and explained some code they had written.

There are only 3 true job interview questions

Why we don’t hire programmers based on puzzles, API quizzes, math riddles, or other parlor tricks

Hateful Hiring

If Tom Brady Were Interviewed By A Software Development Company

I participate in a few sites that exist to help people find answers to questions.  Some software developers that I follow started a site called StackOverflow for programmers which is perhaps the #1 source of useful information for programmers.  You earn points on the site for asking good questions and providing useful answers.  People vote for questions and answers and you are awarded badges like in Call of Duty! They made the technology used on the site available for others to start their own Q&A areas for various topics.  Only those topics that can prove themselves as legit are accepted at StackExchange.

I participate in the following sites:

StackOverflow – Programming questions
AskDifferent – For Apple/Mac questions
Web Applications – Gmail, Facebook, etc
Pro Webmasters – Website managers

The awarding of badges on these sites is a great idea and one that my new company Qliq uses for their Couponing/Social Networking smartphone app.

There are some PowerToys or registry settings you can make to add a context menu in Windows Explorer to open up a command window for the selected folder.  Two built in methods in Windows 7 are:

1. <Shift>Right-click to bring up a more detailed context menu containing “open command window here”
2. Edit the address path in a Windows Explorer window and enter “cmd”

This is why Dave uses it.

I use it to test our Android version of TabbedOut.  I was able to buy a no contract phone for about $150 and sign up for a 200mb data plan for $15/month.  That compares to $200 for an iPhone and about $90/month total plan.  I don’t use my phone as a computer so 200mb is actually plenty.

I received a logo created with Adobe Illustrator but didn’t have anything to view it.  Or so I thought.  Jon has a great post on how you can view .ai files by renaming them as PDF files.  He recommends InkScape as a free opensource vector based editor that can import .ai files.

Recommended settings:

Settings…Media… Uncheck Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders.

Always obfuscate email addresses.  Create images of the address or use javascript email obfuscator

Roles and Capabilities

Recommended Plugins
Members highly recommended for collaboration.
AWPCP for Classified Ads
iFrame. WordPress doesn’t allow iFrames for security reasons.  This plugin supports iFrames which are necessary for embedding things such as a Google Form or PayPal buttons.
NextGen Gallary for simple photo management.  Can be used to rotate through images.  I use it to highlight VIP sponsors.

WordPress Feeds

I finally figured out how to get to do mulitple selections in lists on Windows when running in a VMWare virtual machine under Windows (VMWare Fusion). The Mac does not allow you to remap this sequence but under VMWare Fusion…Preferences…Keyboard & Mouse…Mouse Shortcuts I can turn off the Secondary Button Mouse Shortcut and it will allow Control – Primary Button to do it’s normal thing in Windows.